State OKs pediatric kidney transplants at Cohen
New York health officials have greenlighted a new pediatric kidney-transplant program at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. The state Department of Health has approved plans for a program to be housed…
Health
Five LI hospitals among Most Wired
Five Long Island hospitals have been named “Most Wired” by the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum. The Most Wired survey, conducted between Jan. 15 and March 15, is a leading industry…
NYC 2nd to San Fran in digital health funding
The New York City area ranked second in the nation in funding for digital health startups in the first half of 2016, with more than $750 million invested in 26…
Northwell fields new breast-surgery tracker
The Northwell Health Cancer Institute has begun use of a tiny tracking device, just cleared by the FDA, that pinpoints tumors in breast surgeries. The system, called the SAVI SCOUT,…
Winthrop, NYU Langone in partnership talks
Mineola’s Winthrop-University Hospital is in partnership talks with NYU Langone Medical Center. “This first step represents a momentous milestone for Winthrop,” John Collins, the hospital’s president and chief executive, said…
Economic development with surgical precision
By GREGORY ZELLER // With design in its DNA, MIDI Medical Product Development has a long commercialization history. With its new Innovation Center, the veteran Smithtown maker is focused squarely…
New director spearheads Northwell liver effort
Northwell Health’s drive for a new liver-transplant program kicked into gear Monday with the appointment of a new transplantation director. Lewis Teperman has been named the new vice chair of…
Taking down the hospital’s biggest killer
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Northwell Health clinical study is targeting a notorious killer that preys on weakened hospital patients. By testing white blood cells and monitoring “expression biomarkers,” SeptiCyte…
SynchroPET gets an A in U of Buffalo testing
Stony Brook-based SynchroPET has taken another step toward unprecedented, simultaneous PET/MRI imaging. By placing a PET camera into the bore of an existing MRI machine – that’s the chamber where…
Health insurers ask for big rate hikes
New York health insurers are asking for premium increases of as much as 45 percent for 2017 as they try to combat rising costs and, in some instances, offset mega…
Henry Shein ‘pleased’ with Q1’s 10% sales jump
They’re off to the races once again at Henry Schein Inc., where healthy increases in net sales and net income highlighted a strong first quarter. Coming off a stellar 2015,…
Have a lumbar sciatica? You want the O-Arm
By GREGORY ZELLER // The first Long Island spinal surgeries incorporating a state-of-the-art “intraoperative surgical imaging system” have been successfully completed, with many more to come. In early March, Robert…
Fougera Pharmaceuticals plans $88M Melville plant
Fougera Pharmaceuticals plans to consolidate its local operations into a new $88 million Melville plant that will retain almost 400 jobs and give the firm room for additional growth. Fougera,…
At Northwell, a $100K slam dunk
By GREGORY ZELLER // Fans of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament will help dictate the course of scientific research at Northwell Health. A new multimedia contest featuring television commercials and…
The FDA seeks a cure for stem cell quackery
By GREGORY ZELLER // With federal regulators looming and a charged FDA hearing set for later this year, the nation’s stem cell community is tense, particularly clinicians incorporating stem cell therapies…